Professor Diane Hildebrandt Appointed Guest Professor of HEBUST

On the afternoon of May 16th, the appointment ceremony of Professor Diane Hildebrandt was held at A402 office of administrative building of HEBUST. Diane Hildebrandt, academician of South African Institute of Science was appointed as the guest professor of HEBUST. Before the ceremony, Party Secretary Wang Yuding met with her. President Sun Hexu affixed his signature on the letter of appointment. Vice President delivered a welcome speech.

At the meeting with Diane Hildebrandt, Party Secretary Wang Yuding expressed his warmly welcome to her, and looked forward to achieve great cooperation results. He said that HEBUST has lots of advantages in the major of chemical engineering, and related research cooperation in terms of “comprehensive utilization of biomass resources to produce high-end chemicals” could improve the effective utilization of biomass resources and help cultivate the innovative talents.

Professor Diane Hildebrandt said that it’s a great honor for her to work at HEBUST, and hope relevant cooperation projects could be launched quickly. She said that she is willing to join the HEBUST and hope that she could contribute a lot to the development of HEBUST and local industries.

At the ceremony, President Sun Hexu expressed warmly welcome to her. On behalf of all faculties of HEBUST, he thanked Prof. Diane Hildebrandt for her attendance in spite of all difficulties. He emphasized that HEBUST is at a key point now and the introduction of two academicians from Australia and South Africa means that works of talents introduction of HEBUST has reached a new point. With the implementation of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration, currant talents of HEBUST cannot meet the requirements of Hebei’s economic development. He also said that now both sides are applying for “100 talents” programs, and HEBUST will make better conditions for related research cooperation between both sides , he hoped that would make great contributions to Hebei and Xiongan New Area.

President Sun Hexu signed the letter of appointment, and presented the letter to Zhen.